REVIEW: Don Quixote in Algiers (White Bear Theatre) ★★
In Algiers between 1578 and 1580, Miguel de Cervantes (later the author of Don Quixote de La Mancha) was in custody. He had been a soldier who was captured by Barbary pirates and was being held captive in the city of Algiers until a ransom could be raised. Cervantes was not held in a prison […]
INTERVIEW: London’s new Eponine HOLLIE O’DONOGHUE chats all things LES MIS
Originally from Limerick in Ireland, Hollie first trained at Centre Stage Theatre school before moving to London to train at The London School Of Musical Theatre (2010-2011). Prior to her training, Hollie reached RTE’s televised finals of Fame The Musical (Shinawil Productions). Theatre credits include onstage swing, u/s 1st Imelda in The Commitments (West End), […]
Mel Brooks’ musical comedy YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN to open at the Garrick Theatre
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – the new comedy musical based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit movie – will open in the West End on Thursday 28 September at the Garrick Theatre (Press Night: Tuesday 10 October). Tickets go on-sale tomorrow, Friday 10 February. The production will open for a pre West End season at the […]
KINKY BOOTS – Understudy Paul Ayres takes on the role of Charlie Price
2017 is the year that I plan to do my best to bring understudies to the forefront of theatre. If I can get to see a show when an understudy is performing, then I intend to write about it because it can be a thankless task, for a performer to take on a leading role […]
REVIEW: ONLY BONES (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
The late, great Gregory Hines apparently used to say that that you should be able to dance in a space about a metre square. It’s a captivating idea: that precision and technique are all-important and that wafting about in the luxury of space is somehow cheating. There are another couple of good reasons to confine […]
Broadway star Eden Espinosa chats about the new rock musical LIZZIE
You are joining the cast of Lizzie at Greenwich theatre this year. What is the show about and what attracted you to the part you are playing? Lizzie is about the murders and trail that Lizzie Borden was involved in. She was really the first female who gained fame and notoriety from being on trail […]
What hurts Madalena Alberto’s feelings? Find out in my Tea With Wilma interview
You have performed in some amazing shows so far in your career. What have been some of your highlights? I’ve been very lucky so far, and it’s hard to choose! Playing Fantine at the Chatelé in Paris, Eva Peron at the Dominion theatre, singing ‘Memory’ at the London Palladium… but it all has to do […]
REVIEW: NECESSITY (Bread & Roses Theatre) ★★★
Necessity is a new play written and directed by Paul Macauley. Following a sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe in May 2016, it gets a London premiere at Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham, produced by Broken Silence Theatre, Brighton’s leading new writing theatre company. Inspired by true events, Necessity is set against the backdrop […]
Norma’s off on tour! SUNSET BOULEVARD announce UK&I Tour Dates
Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to present the UK and Ireland tour of the Curve production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical SUNSET BOULEVARD. Starring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and directed by Nikolai Foster, SUNSET BOULEVARD will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 (press night Thursday 28 September), before touring […]
Casting announced for the UK premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl at Southwark Playhouse
The Diary of a Teenage Girl recounts the coming-of-age adventures of Minnie Goetze, a San Francisco teenager growing up in the counterculture haze of the 1970s. Lonely and artistic, Minnie chronicles her trials through expressive drawings and painfully honest missives confided to a tape recorder. One fateful evening alone with her mother’s boyfriend, Minnie is […]